January 19, 2013 - Open House

CaliforniaMama · 01-19-2013, 09:42 AM

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San Francisco's Highlight Gallery will shortly host a remarkable solo exhibition of architectural imagery by Belgian artist Filip Dujardin. Note the avoidance of the word photography. Though Dujardin's photographs provide the building blocks for his work, the end result are fantastical, Photoshopped constructions depicting nonsensical or even impossible architecture.

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"Adding shadows, that’s the main trick," Dujardin told Elle Decor. "The building becomes real if the shadows are well done."

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The images here are . . . based on two photography shoots that took place last year, when Dujardin was invited to Deauville, a town on the north coast of France, and to Guimarães in northern Portugal.

Exhibition: Highlight Gallery, San Francisco, from February 7 to March 29

Filip Dujardin's website

Article in Elle Decor

via gizmag

ZenGum · 01-19-2013, 05:55 PM

I bet that's not 'shopped. I think they built real buildings, took the pictures, then destroyed the buildings to cover their tracks.

No evidence, I just felt like being a dick.

Griff · 01-19-2013, 05:59 PM

Yeah, people always take the easy way out.

glatt · 01-19-2013, 06:49 PM

Photoshopping that is no easy feat. You have to take pictures of houses from multiple angles so you can combine them later. The upper portions of the house must have been taken from ages of houses on a cliff top.

Chocolatl · 01-20-2013, 07:13 AM

These are beautiful. They remind me of the Burrow in the Harry Potter films.

DanaC · 01-20-2013, 07:38 AM

I'm just imagining it being heard at a council planning comittee :p

Trilby · 01-20-2013, 10:20 AM

AW! I was hoping they were real!!

SPUCK · 01-21-2013, 05:51 AM

They give a Californian the shivers.

Gravdigr · 01-21-2013, 05:23 PM

Wait for the first big wind...they look significantly top-heavy.

01-19-2013, 05:55 PM	#2
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I bet that's not 'shopped. I think they built real buildings, took the pictures, then destroyed the buildings to cover their tracks. No evidence, I just felt like being a dick. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

01-19-2013, 05:59 PM	#3
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Yeah, people always take the easy way out. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-20-2013, 10:20 AM	#7
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	AW! I was hoping they were real!! __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

01-21-2013, 05:23 PM	#9
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Wait for the first big wind...they look significantly top-heavy. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-19-2013, 06:49 PM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Photoshopping that is no easy feat. You have to take pictures of houses from multiple angles so you can combine them later. The upper portions of the house must have been taken from ages of houses on a cliff top.

01-20-2013, 07:13 AM	#5
Chocolatl Glutton for Gluttony Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 1,409	These are beautiful. They remind me of the Burrow in the Harry Potter films.

01-21-2013, 05:51 AM	#8
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	They give a Californian the shivers.

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